Elementary Educators/Expert Profile

Expertise

My expertise is in 1st-3rd grade, I specialize in beginning reading and writing, but I teach drawing and painting first to help students gain confidence. I also use jigsaw puzzle strategy to teach concentration as a subject and enlist parents to keep their children away from scary movies,among other things,which cause nightmares, sleep deprivation and low test scores!

Experience in the area

I have taught K-3 for 24 years, given in-service to parents and teachers and presented at reading conferences. To see my children's art work and examples of improved test scores go to www.artsimprovingacademics.org

Education/Credentials

Elementary Clear

What do you like about this subject?

Helping children appreciate their talents and giving them a chance to use and teach their skills to classmates is very rewarding and solves many problems.

What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field?

I want to share my successful methods.

Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:

My students are limited only by my concepts of what they can do. Using teacher intuition is the most helpful, and if you pray, pray on.

Something controversial or provocative about this subject

Children can learn to read in just a few weeks using letter sounds only, which means no letter names. They don't need to study a single sound for a week; that's ridiculous. They can easily learn four per day and should be printing the letter as they make its sound. This is actually teaching them to write first.